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...Like all sequels, TOPOFF 4, the government's upcoming blockbuster counterterrorism exercise, running all this week, will be bigger, scarier and more expensive than the one before. Terrorists will smuggle radioactive material into the United States and then launch three coordinated dirty-bomb attacks in Portland, Phoenix and Guam. More than 15,000 people will participate, from Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to local mayors, police officers and nurses. Professional make-up artists will create oozing "wounds" for volunteer victims, and equipment will be flown in from across the country to detect and contain the "contamination...
Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, owner of the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks, and one of the developers of the first private spacecraft, has never lacked for ways to stay busy, but in 2001 he joined with the University of California, Berkeley, and the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute to install a set of 42 dish antennas in Hat Creek, Calif. The so-called Allen Telescope Array (ATA), which was scheduled to go live on Oct. 11, does what conventional radio telescopes do. That is to say, it listens to the faint whisper of radio signals from...
...Weather-torn from traveling the nation the past two weeks to battle North Carolina, Duke, Portland, and Washington, the Bulldogs (3-7) will try to hold their own against Harvard. But according to Mann, the revamped and poised Crimson will be hard to defeat...
...What are your feelings about the Bush Administration's claim that negotiating with our enemies weakens America's power? -Jeff Rogers, Portland, Ore. It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with...
...offer a classic response. "People don't buy real estate on a national basis," says Tom Kunz, CEO of real estate giant Century 21. "They buy it on a local basis." Sure enough, many parts of the country aren't in trouble. Prices are still rising in Seattle and Portland, Ore. In Atlanta, Dallas and Charlotte, N.C., prices never went up all that much, and they're not falling now. The same appears to be true in many smaller cities and towns...